Who are you?
My name is Gillian Barden. I am a multi-disciplinary Coach and Detoxification Specialist with a rich and diverse background. This has shaped my holistic approach to healing and wellness. From Galway, on the west coast of Ireland, After university, I lived in Dublin for many years and travelled in South America before moving to Bangkok in 2012. Followed by the last decade spent in Hanoi, Vietnam. I am currently based between there and Chiang Mai, Thailand, working with clients in person and online from around the world. Offering Executive, Business and Personal Coaching as well as tailored Detoxification Programs. A holistic approach combines both, clients may also choose to focus on one.
My personal journey in life has brought me through an initiation of experiences including CPTSD, complex grief, disordered eating, and addiction. I have been experimenting with sobriety for five years now after half a lifetime of addiction. Abstinence has been the key to allowing me to fully feel and so transmute what I was seeking to sooth with maladaptive strategies such as substances and codependency. As a coach, I do not offer the blue print of my recovery as guidelines as every journey is unique. However, the depth of my experience with trauma informs my understanding, shaping my ability to ask you powerful questions. My experience also gave me the ability to hold space like the ocean. The coaching tool kit can be applied to any issue, as a coach I approach it with curiosity like I am a blank canvas. We can begin with issues in business or career; the real issue will arise which is usually a form of unprocessed or unrecognised core beliefs, programming or trauma. I feel that where I come from brings with me an unlimited acceptance and curiosity of the human condition. Where ever you are at, I can meet you there.
The personal philosophy on coaching I cultivate focuses on the facilitation of the dismantling of barriers to authenticity and achieving the epitome of health as designed by nature. I see transformation as an integral part of self-actualisation achieved by accepting and understanding before transcending our limitations. As a Detox Specialist I can assess your toxicity, curate a program specific to your needs to cleanse, and facilitate your empowerment in a lifestyle and mind shift. Waking up to the world of heavy metals, parasites, mould, and candida effecting our health on every level including psychological and emotional as well as physical. I am equipped to pass on the tools to my clients to help maximise your longevity, this area is a cornerstone of preventative medicine.
Personal growth is an individual experience, my commitment is to facilitating transformative experiences for those seeking balance, harmony, optimal well-being – to ultimately aligning with your true purpose in life.
Where do you come from?
My initiation to psychology and the need for detoxification have roots in early life. Sickness, death, and complex family dynamics fuelled by ancestral trauma were key themes. Being of the first generation of Irish people to not have active institutionalised oppression in my life, we have been tasked with the space to break the cycles. The recent stages of my personal path with healing and transformation have revealed the complexity and visceral presence of ancestral gifts, as well as curses in the form of unprocessed trauma.
The gifts come in the form of instinct, survival, resourcefulness, unquantifiable strength and intuition. Talents and intelligence encoded into our DNA. Being Irish, the curses were passed down in the parts of our parents who were brutalised in a school system of unimaginable cruelty against innocent children. As well as what was passed down to them, from the generations who came before who fought the British for eight hundred years. Our parents came from the social climate of the Magdalene Laundries and in my generation - the tides turned to strike the matches to burn that down. Oppression is like shame - its insidious. Being born into a line brutalised by trauma for forty generations, I work to make my contribution to the healing of the collective. By creating spaces for it to be revealed and felt. With deepest gratitude at the for the sacrifices of my ancestors who survived so that I can be here and be free to do this work. I honour them by making my contribution to my lineage of farmers, warriors, philosophers, druids, witches, pagans and poets by doing the shadow work, and holding space for you to do yours if you choose.
The detoxification of trauma will always be a work in progress. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) was a big step in my commitment to recovery. We are multidimensional beings of body, mind and soul. Toxicology of the body began with inheritance from our parents also and of course environment plays a huge factor. The good news is, there are natural methods to reconnect with our bodies and cleanse on every level, its with great pleasure that I get to facilitate this process in which you experience and keep the tools. I come from people who search for and share knowledge to empower the collective.
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